The year is 1788, and a revolution is about to begin….

Nefertiti and her younger sister, Mutnodjmet, have been raised in a powerful family that has provided wives to the rulers of Egypt for centuries....

Nefertari becomes the wife of Ramesses the Great. Destined to be the most powerful Pharaoh in Egypt....

Delivered to the household of Octavian's sister, the children of Marc Antony and Cleopatra cling to each other and to the hope that they will return one day to the throne of Egypt....

Paris, 1917. The notorious dancer Mata Hari sits in a cell awaiting freedom...or death. Alone and despondent, she is as confused as the rest of the world about the charges she's been arrested on....

When the British Empire sets its sights on India in the mid-nineteenth century, it expects a quick and easy conquest. India is fractured and divided into kingdoms....

Based on primary resources from the time, The Second Empress takes readers back to Napoleon’s empire, where royals and servants alike live at the whim of one man, and two women vie to change their destinies....